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Other Travel Trips

Maps are re-oriented to all face North.

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150 AD Ptolomy map -  from British Library

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150 AD Ptolomy Map. engraved by Johannes Schnitzer in 1482. 

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1300 Hereford Mappamundi, scale and geometry poor. Centered on Jerusalem, water is the Meditteranean

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1450 Mappamundi. Expands to Arctic Sea, South Africa, China

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1436 Mappamundi. Expands to Baltic, Equatorial Africa, India. Improved scale and geometry of Europe.

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1459 Frau Mauro. Expands to Russia, Madagascar, Japan

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1509  Wiedsmuller. Expands to Americas, Spice Islands, edge of Australia.

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W. Bleau Map 1608 

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